(EMAILWIRE.COM, September 11, 2002 ) The board of directors of GTESS Corporation on September 10 announced that it has appointed Deborah M. Gage as president and chief executive officer. Ms. Gage will also hold a seat on the GTESS board. Her appointment will take effect immediately.

In announcing this appointment, GTESS Co-Chairman Guy B. Snowden said, "This is an important step in moving GTESS forward. Deb is a highly qualified and experienced leader in the healthcare technology industry, with equal success in major corporations and entrepreneurial ventures. I am confident that with her leadership, GTESS will achieve its significant potential as a major provider of outsourced solutions to healthcare payors and provider networks."

Ms. Gage is a veteran of business start-ups, most recently as president and CEO of RosettaMed, Inc., a Houston-based start-up providing physician-patient connectivity. Prior to this she was founder, president and CEO of Solution Point, a business she founded to provide marketing information systems to healthcare technology companies. Ms. Gage has also held high-level management positions at CareStream Corporation (a division of FoxMeyer) and The MEDSTAT Group. She earned a master's in business administration degree from the Michigan Business School and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Michigan.

The GTESS Board also thanked John E. Taylor, Jr., the company's former interim president and CEO for his significant efforts to advance the company's position in the healthcare industry. Mr. Taylor is the managing director of SnowMark, a Vero Beach, Florida-based venture capital firm and a shareholder in GTESS Corporation.

GTESS Corporation offers significant operating efficiencies to the healthcare industry through a range of outsourced solutions that streamline electronic claims processing. We specialize in providing full front-end services, from paper or electronic claims receipt and validation to data archival and retrieval.

By receiving "clean claims" in HIPAA-compliant formats, GTESS clients achieve higher auto-adjudication rates, maintain peak-level processing capacity and eliminate their backlog -- all with guaranteed turnaround time and data accuracy. For more information, please visit www.gtess.com.

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Carolyn Quarles, GTESS
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